My favorite Directed by Welles film is "The Magnificent Ambersons" even in its butchered state it is a brilliant film with a absolutely spellbinding performance by Agnes Moorehead as Aunt Fanny. Welles didn't appear in the film but his narration adds to the picture. It's biggest fault? a tacked on "happy ending" that the studio filmed behind Orson's back.

My favorite film featuring Orson Welles but not directed by him?"The Third Man"

It's kind of a shame when an artist's first work is his most successful, most cherished, most respected, and that dynamic probably explains a lot about his later sad end as a wine pitchman shuckin' and jivin' on Dean Martin roasts, but Kane, I think, wrote the vocabulary for the creation of motion pictures. I always feel a little sad when I watch it, though, because of his subsequent downfall and because he did so much with so little and today we can virtually create anything on film and so much of it is complete shit. Imagine if a hack like Michael Bay had even a portion of Orson's genius, vision, and drive.

I have liked all of his early films a great deal. But Kane is really the only film where Welles had free reign and total control creatively, and it shows. The other films are all compromised to one degree or another.

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